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Here is a Cursor user, after pricing changes, sharing that in the last 8 days they’ve been allowed to spend $120 of compute on their $20-a-month subscription. This is so bad. Cursor is bleeding out. The largest non-oAI/Anthropic AI may very well die. www.reddit.com/r/cursor/com...

Cursor is Anthropic’s largest customer for API calls, and I would guess they make up at least $400m - so 10% - of Anthropic’s revenue. Any reduction in their spend - or their death - would savage Anthropic’s revenue. Why am I the only asshole writing about this? Good grief.

Their $ may not work but your extrapolation is poor too. How do you know what the average user is doing based on this one example? Did this user get the notification that they exceeded Pro tier limits and would auto upgrade or get hit with usage fees?

Also, are you sure that Cursor is not show list API cost while they might actually pay Anthropic a deeply discounted amount? They would do this to convey higher value in their offering to users.